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Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952) The North American Indian - Volume XVII, 1926 Individual volume on on Japanese Gampi tissue etching stock Featuring the Southwestern tribes of the Tewa and Zuni 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (31.75 x 24.13 cm.), Prints: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19.05 x 13.97 cm.) The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Volume IV. Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1926. LIMITED EDITION: This volume is numbered 96, printed on handmade Japanese Gampi tissue paper, quarto, top edges gilt, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, raised paneled spine, ribbon bookmark, with photogravure plates by John Andrew & Son of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. TEXT VOLUMES: 74 photogravures and over 260 pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Hand-bound. ADDITIONAL: This example is from set #96, which descends from original subscriber's William Henry Moore (1847-1923) and his brother James Hobart Moore (1851-1916) to the Moore Memorial Library. The brothers founded the library in their boyhood home of Greene, New York, in 1903, in honor of their mother. While the Moore's were not as well known as the Carnegies, Morgan's and Harriman's, the family operated in the same social milieu. They were friends of J.P. Morgan, the visionary industrialist, and collector, who first sponsored Curtis' comprehensive pictorial chronicle of native life, and next to Morgan, successfully exploited the financial possibilities of industrial mergers in the United States. Provenance: Edward S. Curtis StudioWilliam Henry MooreThe Moore Memorial LibraryThe Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 1998